Tour CB21
Tour CB21, formerly Tour Gan, is an office skyscraper located in La Défense, the high-rise business district situated west of Paris, France. It was designed by celebrated American architect Max Abramovitz.- Type: Building
- Description: skyscraper in Paris La Défense
- Also known as: “Tour Gan”
- Address: 16
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Esplanade de La Défense station and Tour First.
Esplanade de La Défense station
Metro station
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Esplanade de La Défense is a station on Paris Métro Line 1 on the outskirts of La Défense on the border of Courbevoie and Puteaux. It has an island platform because of limitations on space due it being enclosed in a site originally earmarked for one of the underpasses of the A14 autoroute.
Tour First
Building
Photo: Arthur Weidmann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tour First is an office skyscraper in the La Défense business district of the metropolitan area of Paris. Built in 1974, the tower stands at 231 m tall with 52 floors and is the current second tallest building in France. Tour First is situated 130 metres east of Tour CB21.
Grande Arche
Photo: Cristian Bortes, CC BY 2.0.
La Grande Arche de la Défense, originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité, is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France. Grande Arche is situated 1 km west of Tour CB21.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Défense and Courbevoie.
La Défense
Photo: Micdjunior, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Défense is a collection of modern high-rise office and residential buildings built according to an evolving central plan on the western outskirts of Paris, beyond the last Parisian loop of the river Seine.
Courbevoie
Town
Photo: Clicsouris, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Courbevoie is a commune located in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region of France. It is a suburb of Paris, 8.2 km from the center of Paris.
Puteaux
Town
Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Puteaux is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the heart of the Hauts-de-Seine department, 8.7 kilometres from the centre of Paris. La Défense, Paris's business district hosting the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area, extends over the northern part of Puteaux and parts of the neighbouring communes Courbevoie and Nanterre.
Tour CB21
- Category: skyscraper
- Location: Courbevoie, Arrondissement of Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.88891° or 48° 53′ 20″ northLongitude
2.24989° or 2° 14′ 60″ eastLevels
42Height
179 metres (587 feet)Open location code
8FW4V6QX+HXOpenStreetMap ID
way 82467041OpenStreetMap feature
building=towerWikidata ID
Q995371
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Satellite Map
Discover Tour CB21 from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Tour CB21” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tour CB21”
- Belarusian: “Вежа Ган”
- Chinese: “CB21大樓”
- Dutch: “Tour CB21”
- Estonian: “Tour CB21”
- Finnish: “Tour Gan”
- French: “Tour CB21”
- French: “Tour Gan”
- German: “Tour CB21”
- German: “Tour Gan”
- Hebrew: “Tour CB21”
- Hungarian: “Tour CB21”
- Indonesian: “Tour Gan”
- Italian: “Tour CB21”
- Persian: “تور سیبی۲۱”
- Polish: “Tour Gan”
- Slovak: “Tour CB21”
- Spanish: “Tour CB21”
- Spanish: “Tour Gan”
- Swedish: “Tour Gan”
- Turkish: “Tour Gan”
- Ukrainian: “Вежа Ган”
- Vietnamese: “Tháp Gan”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Centre d’Exploitation des Parkings and Esplanade Sud.
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